Re:Oregon Finally Legalizes Pumping Your Own Gas After 72 Years
by willio58 on Monday June 26, 2023 @06:40PM
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> So effectively these were government subsidized jobs.
Hey now, without government-subsidized jobs we'd have millions out of work if you take into account not only government agencies but also the US military.
While I think this specific version of government-subsidized jobs (pumping gas) feels forced, I think the government creating jobs is a great thing on the whole. The New Deal was a great example of this, created 20-something million new jobs for a decade or so and pulled us out of the great depression.
Now if we want to talk about truly bad government-subsidized labor it revolves around private companies abusing our welfare systems by paying their workers starvation wages cough Wal-mart cough.
Hey now, without government-subsidized jobs we'd have millions out of work if you take into account not only government agencies but also the US military.
While I think this specific version of government-subsidized jobs (pumping gas) feels forced, I think the government creating jobs is a great thing on the whole. The New Deal was a great example of this, created 20-something million new jobs for a decade or so and pulled us out of the great depression.
Now if we want to talk about truly bad government-subsidized labor it revolves around private companies abusing our welfare systems by paying their workers starvation wages cough Wal-mart cough.